Ioroi, Takeshi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9064-5106
Kiyota, Naomi
Imamura, Yoshinori
Tanda, Masaaki
Aoki, Shiori
Okuno, Mamoru
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro
Sasaki, Ryohei
Nibu, Ken-ichi
Minami, Hironobu
Hirai, Midori
Yano, Ikuko
Article History
Received: 1 January 2020
Accepted: 11 May 2020
First Online: 1 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kobe University Hospital (approval No. 260019). It was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the ethical guidelines for clinical research in Japan. This study was registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR; identification No. UMIN000014433. Registered 30 June 2014, ).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.